Lore post ahead, I know not everyone cares about the lore, but please hear me out, I really need your help to draw atleast some attention to this topic. If you want to support this post, leaving a comment helps a lot!
Short TLDR at the bottom
First off, I know that there have already been topics about this, but I just can’t let this be forgotten. So let me get into it:
From an interview with a wow dev: “I think she had her moment where we told some of her story and she got her revenge for the Night Elves.”
So, where do I even start with this whole thing? Well, let’s see here:
Sylvanas has planned an attack on the night elves because “they could think about attacking the horde in the future”, so if the horde attacks first, this won’t be able to happen.
For this reason, Sylvanas took her whole horde army, marched from orgrimmar to Darkshore and slaughtered every Night elf they could find, not even civilians were spared and just brutally murdered.
To end the whole thing, she commited genocide against Night elves that were still in Teldrassil, knowing that only innocents/civilians remained in there.
She even made shamans empower the flames to make sure that those people all die, she didn’t want to destroy the tree, she wanted to destroy the race.
I can’t remember that such an atrocious event has ever happened in WoW.
She almost wiped out the Night elves, knowingly killed thousands of civilians and all that just to minimize the chance of getting attacked by the night elves in the future ? There are barely any night elves left in Azeroth now, the race is basically going extinct at this point (according to official lore).
This is not even the shocking part though. Sylvanas and her followers have commited a horrible atrocity and she must pay for it… right?
Well, apparently, the devs see it otherwise: Tyrande has gained new powers with the few people left of the night elves, but the only thing they managed to do is kill 1 of Sylvanas Val’kyrs.
They did not manage to kill Nathanos or even hurt him. He even mocked Tyrande for what happened with Teldrassil and him raising 2 of the Night elves former commanders as undeads.
They are so weak in numbers now that they did not even manage to conquer Darkshore (or what’s left of it) back. The horde hasn’t even gotten a slap on the wrist for what happened, and the devs call it revenge?
I find this sick, just awful hearing from a dev that Tyrande already avenged the thousands of innocents that were killed in Sylvanas genocide and that the story with the night elf (in relation to Teldrassil) is about over. Do they think that killing 1 Val’kyr makes up for the intentional murder of thousands of innocents and the loss of their home?
And before people come up with the battle for lordaeron, how many innocent civilians that had a life expectation of thousands of years were killed in the battle for lordaeron? If the answer is less than thousands, then it’s not revenge.
Why does Blizzard write a story that has horrible consequences for night elf fans, but then doesn’t finish it properly? We will probably end up siding with the horde and forget about the whole incident.
I think this is just wrong on so many levels I can’t even find the right words for it. If any Blizzard Story Devs stumbles upon this, please reconsider your decisions and give Night elves atleast some compensation for what happened, don’t just leave them to die out and pretend like it has never happened. Atleast in WoW, the night elves always seemed to be a pretty peaceful race to me (not in WC3 but let’s talk about WoW here) and they definitely deserved better than that.
Sorry for all the complaining, but I think it just had to be said. I hope I’m not the only one that sees it this way. I know that not everyone might not agree entirely, but even as a former horde main this questline just felt horrible and so wrong to do, killing innocents and being unable to act against sylvanas. It just felt like it’s so next level evil that even the savage horde should never get away with such an act.
What bothers me the most is that the devs already confirmed that they’re done with Tyrande as she “already got her revenge for the night elves”. This is also why I thought I should make this post. It’s not likely to change anything, but I just wanted to draw atleast some attention to this topic.
TLDR: Killing 1 Val’kyr is not revenge for aiming and succeeding to kill thousands of innocents, wiping out the majority of a race and making all of them die a slow, painful death. All of that completely unprovoked
Please Blizzard, atleast give us something, this was such a huge let down for night elf players. Maybe a new capital city with new children or something that shows that the race is not completely dead, if you won’t give us our revenge.
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8.2.5 Update: So now the Night Elves aren’t even mentioned anymore. They are at peace with the horde now. With the very horde that genocided them and occupy their lands until this day.
8.3 Update: Anduin and Tyrande have a talk where Anduin spits on her by wanting to sign a peace treaty without demanding an apology or a return of night elf lands. Undead Night elves are also heavily hinted as a final spit in the face. Seems as Ashenvale and Darkshore are horde territory now.
Blizzcon Update: Seems like we actually got Darkshore back but 8.1 was even more pointless because Sylvanas can create more Val’kyr. Also they told us that every innocent that died in Teldrassil has to suffer in the maw (wow hell) forever to rub salt into the wound.